θοίν-η,
Doric dialect θοίνα (later θοῖνα [[ LXX.Wis.12.6 ] LXX], perhaps to be read in [[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 148.1)] Refs 5th c.BC+], ἡ, meal, feast, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 114, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.119, 9.82, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 350.7, etc.: in _plural_, [prev. author] “Pr.” 530 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus “fragment” 18; τὰς θ. κὰτ τὰν ὥραν ἀπάγεσθαι “Michel” 995 D 50; θοίνῃς δὲ καὶ εἰλαπίνῃσι 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 239 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐκ θοίνας after dinner, [[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 148.2; εἰς θ. καλεῖν τινα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1140; ἐπὶ θοίνην ἰέναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 247a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παρακαλεῖν ἐπὶ τὴν θ. [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 549 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σκευαζομένης θ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 178d, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1282a22; τραπέζας ἱερὰς πρεπούσης θ. γεμίζων “OGI” 383.146 (Commagene, 1st c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν θ. λέγειν τινά to count as a guest, and generally to take into account, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 649a: _metaphorically_, [prev. author] “Sph.” 251b, “Phdr.” 236e, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.39. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II food, πτανοῖς [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 504, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Timotheus Lyricus “Persae” 150; θ. παντοδαπή 1st c.BC: Parthenius Mythographus 12.2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 feeding upon, with genitive, τῶν σαρκῶν [[ 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 2.47. (Cf. θῶσθαι.) ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]